Researcher Bios:

      Curious. Innovative. Independent. The researchers at the Kingsbury Center have a common goal: to investigate strategies for advancing academic student growth and improving our schools. By partnering with diverse educational leaders, our team is helping to revolutionize education research with high quality data that is designed to inform, empower and make a difference.

      John Cronin
      Mike Dahlin
      Don Draper
      Sarah Durant
      G. Gage Kingsbury
      Rebecca Moore
      Yeow Meng Thum
      Yun Xiang
      Yeow Meng Thum
      Title: Senior Research Fellow
      Additional Biographical Information:

      Yeow Meng joined NWEA in 2008 after teaching graduate courses involving statistical methodology and assessments in the Graduate School of Education and Informative Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and the College of Education at Michigan State University. His theoretical interests include topics in educational and psychological measurement, statistical techniques for making causal inferences of educational effects, and problems in the use of meta-analysis. He specializes in studying the use of testing results to help address public educational policy questions, with a strong emphasis on the use of Bayesian modeling methods to formulate indicators of school performance based on individual student achievement. Yeow Meng holds a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and Quantitative Psychology from the University of Chicago, and an A.B. in Psychology from Columbia University.